Are you rolling in cash these days? Magazine publishers seem to think so. It’s only March and four luxury titles have revealed they will launch (or relaunch) to tell the tales of billionaire bachelors, fine Parisian restaurants and the latest antiaging skin procedures. In February, Bloomberg Pursuits was introduced to 310,000 subscribers of the Bloomberg Professional service, who pay $20,000 a year to use the Bloomberg Terminal. The average household income of the Bloomberg Pursuits reader is $452,000 and 90 percent are male. That first issue carried 30 ad pages, from the likes of Hermès, Chanel and NetJets and included a story about a Bloomberg subscriber who travels to Antarctica on an icebreaker to witness a solar eclipse. WWD

Sears Holdings Corp. has lost another high level executive, this time the marketing chief for its namesake stores. Monica Woo left the company after just five months on the job, at a time the retailer is trying to turn operations around. The departure was reported earlier by Reuters. Ms. Woo joined Sears in August after the position was vacant for a year-and-a-half. She left in January and has now joined Mozido, a provider of multi-channel financial service platforms. Ms. Woo’s Internet experience was seen as meshing well with Sears’ online drive. WSJ

Lululemon, which sells yoga gear, had sales of $712 million last year. A New York store shown here.

When Lululemon Athletica Inc. reports earnings Thursday, the apparel chain with a tech start-up’s valuation is expected to tell investors its sales grew strongly for the 12th consecutive quarter. The mystery is how the chain has managed to turn yoga gear into a miniempire, notching a market value of $10.4 billion with sales of just $712 million last year, and whether it can sustain the pace. WSJ

Hermès International SCA said it will continue to invest in its production and distribution network over 2012 as it posted a 41% rise in net profit, boosted by a gain from the sale of its stake in the Jean-Paul Gaultier group.The French luxury goods group also announced that it will propose an ordinary dividend of €2 a share for 2011, up from €1.50 the year before, as well as a bonus payout of €5 a share. WSJ

More than a year after 29 people were trapped in a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh used by well-known American clothing brands, an ABC News investigation found the retailers—including Gap, Kohl’s and Phillips-Van Heusen—right back in business at the factory. And labor groups say dangerous conditions such as locked gates and shoddy wiring persist in a country where nearly 500 workers have died in garment factory fires over the past five years. In advance of the ABC News report, the company that produces the Tommy Hilfiger line announced it would be the first company whose clothes were being made during the deadly blaze to demand changes—committing to spend more than $1 million to enforce a set of safety reforms demanded by labor rights groups. ABC News

When times are tough, retailers focusing on mid-priced clothing are often the hardest hit. For some European apparel and accessories makers, that once-shunned market is proving to be the most resilient. Bloomberg

J.C. Penney’s desire to be “a store for all Americans—rich and poor, young and old, rural and suburban” goes against the conventional wisdom that it is difficult to succeed by trying to be everything to everybody, writes Alexander Chernev, associate professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Will the retailer be able to succeed where others have failed, or will it soon realize that to succeed it needs to focus on a particular customer segment?Forbes

Paris-listed Hermès lost its case against a clothing company relating to its Chinese language brand name. FT

Barneys, with 39 stores across the U.S., hopes to tackle debt problems and keep up some recent momentum. Above, Barneys New York Dalenciaga shop display window. Published Credit: Alamy

Barneys New York Inc. is headed for talks with lenders to get a handle on a debt load that stems from its 2007 takeover by Dubai investors. In the past couple of weeks, Barneys has tapped bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, said people familiar with the matter, as the chain aims to rework its finances and keep a nascent turnaround on track. WSJ

Luxury-goods company Hermès International SCA Thursday posted an 18% rise in 2011 sales, illustrating the company’s resilience to deteriorating consumer confidence. The famous silk-scarf and leather-goods fashion house reported strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, where the company reported a 28% jump in sales and in the Americas, where they increased by 21%. WSJ

Several prominent U.S. fashion labels, including Tommy Hilfiger and Diane von Furstenberg, are using Twitter to provide a first look at their collections during New York Fashion Week. Mashable

Sears Holdings Corp. suffered another setback when CIT Group Inc. said it would no longer finance loans to suppliers awaiting payment from the company.WSJ

Prestige retailers are largely failing to keep pace with developments and consumer demand for mobile shopping capabilities, a new study from New York research firm L2 suggests. A full 16% of brands in the survey, including Hermès, Bottega Veneta and Marc Jacobs, have seemingly forsaken mobile altogether, having developed neither mobile-optimized sites nor mobile apps to date. Mashable

Not every fashion blogger is a 15-year-old girl with an unhealthy obsession with Rei Kawakubo. Some are older. And some are men. NYT

Gilt Groupe CEO Kevin Ryan is denying rumors that the luxury e-commerce company is undergoing a massive restructuring, and said nearly all of its 900 employees and business units will remain intact. AllThingsD

Items in the U.S. cost half what they do in Brazil because of taxes, inflation and the real. Above, a Macy’s crowd.

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Brazilian shoppers are taking the U.S. by storm this holiday season, a welcome boost for U.S. retailers facing a sluggish economy. Armed with a strong currency, easier access to credit and abundant enthusiasm for shopping, Brazilians have quietly ousted richer nations, such as the U.K., as the biggest overseas spenders in key U.S. markets like New York City and Florida. WSJ

Mulberry has appointed a director from French luxury goods group Hermès to become its chief executive and lead the British group’s expansion into Asia and the U.S. FT

U.S. online retail sales rose 14% in the latest week from a year earlier, placing e-commerce spending for the holiday shopping season on track to top 2010 levels, according to Internet measurement company comScore Inc. WSJ

Plus, is all that shopping online bad for the environment? Not according to a study from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, which found that online shopping is almost always less energy-intensive than going to a store in person. Los Angeles Times

The Clothes: This is what to wear when you travel to Tibet by yak, and Travel & Leisure is coming along to take photographs. Long white pleated skirts, pantaloons, loose floppy pants, and a swingy suede jacket. (Maybe not the soft white leather socks, worn with sandals. How would you wash them?)

Hermès on Tuesday hosted a sneak preview of its new documentary, “Hearts and Crafts (“Les mains d’Hermès”).

The 47-minute film visits various production sites around France, from the historic Paris workshop above its flagship store to its crystal factory in a depressed corner of the country. Workers talk about the saddles, Kelly bags, silk scarves, metal jewelry and crystal goblets they make. It was directed by two documentary filmmakers, Isabelle Dupuy-Chavanat and Frederic Laffont, and financed by Hermes.

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